quickbeam
Premium
join:2003-06-01
Ottawa
 ·Rogers Hi-Speed
 ·Bell Sympatico
| reply to sbrook
Re: rogers inserting advertisements into my browser - WTF?
said by sbrook  :Interesting ... AT&T (SBC) DNS servers! ns1.snet.net [204.60.0.2] LOL I'm sure the appreciate the extra traffic. |
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TKJunkMail
Enjoy the sun
Premium
join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ
 ·Sprint Mobile Broa..
·Comcast
| reply to Quake110
said by Quake110 :said by clewis4u91 :Good thing I'm using OpenDNS  It's the same thing with OpenDNS. Bad domains are redirected to their search pages. YES. Unless you sign up for a FREE account and then set up the option to Turn off typo correction. You go in to the Dashboard at www.opendns.com and select settings and the typo corrections and then uncheck the box enable typo correction.
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quickbeam
Premium
join:2003-06-01
Ottawa | reply to woowah
Tracert search.rogers.com and it goes to Washington. |
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a_large_rock
join:2003-08-02
Markham, ON | reply to woowah
I'm getting the rogers redirect search even tho i'm using open dns.. how is that possible? |
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sbrook
Premium,Mod
join:2001-12-14
H0H 0H0
1 edit | You're not actually using opendns? Make sure you put it in the right place (windows and/or your router.) And you did restart networking? |
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TKJunkMail
Enjoy the sun
Premium
join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
·Comcast
| reply to a_large_rock
said by a_large_rock :I'm getting the rogers redirect search even tho i'm using open dns.. how is that possible? You can verify that you are using opendns servers by going to »www.opendns.com and verifying the web page shows the following:
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a_large_rock
join:2003-08-02
Markham, ON | reply to sbrook
Yep, my mistake. I had open dns as primary, and rogers as secondary... and it must have gone to the secondary. |
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MikeRCMP
join:2008-07-16
Moncton, NB
·Rogers Hi-Speed
| reply to Anon Nam
There are some advantages to this service, I was speaking to a tier 2 this afternoon on the issue.
»blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/0···age.html
»technorati.com/posts/d8RJnCKdA97···i6zbE%3D
By altering content, they are no longer "common carriers" and are legally responsible for all content they convey, including kiddie porn and terrorist plots...
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Cab···_content |
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MikeRCMP
join:2008-07-16
Moncton, NB
·Rogers Hi-Speed
| reply to woowah
If you want to really complain to rogers call during the business day during business hours and demand to speak to "office of the president" If they con you into saying the issue is "technical" they can outright refuse to transfer. If you explain clearly you need to talk to them about "POLICY" then arguably at least the agent's t2 will agree with you to "warm transfer" you to office of the president. |
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anon34242
@rogers.com
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TKJunkMail
| Wow, people really get worked up about nothing. So big deal, you make a typo and it directs you to a Rogers search page.
BIG DEAL. |
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Kahless2k
@rogers.com
| reply to woowah
I didnt have an issue with this at first either; however, my beef is that I did not agree that rogers can give my surfing information - even if it's only typos - to an outside (read: foreign) company.
As far as I know, under PIPEDA, we would have to specifically agree to this - it can't be hidden in the TOS and be assumed, nor can it be an opt-out kind of deal.
I plan to raise hell about this and I hope a lot of others do as well. |
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elwoodblues
Elwood Blues
join:2006-08-30
Toronto, ON
| said by Kahless2k :
I didnt have an issue with this at first either; however, my beef is that I did not agree that rogers can give my surfing information - even if it's only typos - to an outside (read: foreign) company.
As far as I know, under PIPEDA, we would have to specifically agree to this - it can't be hidden in the TOS and be assumed, nor can it be an opt-out kind of deal.
I plan to raise hell about this and I hope a lot of others do as well.
If it is under the privacy act (wait for the republ.. err conservatives) to change the act to allow Rogers to do this .
Out of all seriousness, then you should contact the privacy commissioners office: »www.privcom.gc.ca/contactUs/index_e.asp and see if it is indeed an issue. |
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elwoodblues
Elwood Blues
join:2006-08-30
Toronto, ON | reply to quickbeam
Looks like they are using a CO Locate service on the Level 3 network.
They could have put their servers there for the extra bandwidth |
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Todd111
@ineacorp.com
| reply to woowah
Re: rogers inserting advertisements into my browser - WTF
I occasionally do some security testing with computers on my LAN at home and had some interesting results over the weekend before I was aware of what Rogers had done. I was using a product called DoSHTTP, a copy can be found here: »www.socketsoft.net/ When I pointed the tool at a machine on my network and set it to run, I eventually noticed that I was not attacking the machine on my private network but instead was attacking the Rogers search server. I have since discontinued this testing, but I am curious as to what the legal implications of this might be. Since my DoS session was targeted at one of my computers, but Rogers gave back bad DNS info that sent the traffic to their server, it does not seem like I could be found responsible. Just something to think about. |
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nekkidtruth
You fail at life.
Premium
join:2002-05-20
London, ON
| reply to woowah
Re: rogers inserting advertisements into my browser - WTF?
I happily use OpenDNS and they have been doing it since as far as I can remember.
This doesn't bother me one bit. It's simply searching for the correct site. I don't see any ads anyway as most are being blocked
Sometimes I even misspell sites on purpose because I can't remember the actual site, and this helpful tool points me to the right direction
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FreakWillie
@interfast.ca | reply to anon34242
VPN into your office. Browse to a company server and get a Rogers/Yahoo search result page, WTF and yes it's a big deal. Because of this, VPN users can't access servers by name over the VPN. |
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anon3242423
@rogers.com
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Switch them to a non-rogers dns and they will be fine. Did that for all our employee's over the weekend. No problems now.
said by FreakWillie :
VPN into your office. Browse to a company server and get a Rogers/Yahoo search result page, WTF and yes it's a big deal. Because of this, VPN users can't access servers by name over the VPN.
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snakeyez11
@rogers.com
| reply to woowah
I just set my firewall to block all outbound traffic to search.rogers.com and problem solved 
And the wonderful error message in all its glory:
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i286
join:2008-01-16
Toronto, ON
·Rogers Hi-Speed
| reply to olesz
quote:
just go to the bottom of that page and click learn more and there you can disable the service
You are not disabling the service, basically they give you a fake page and one might think that browser did really render it, but it is still theirs.
Look, the favicon is there and some pictures are missing: refresh.gif (82 bytes)  .
Plus this is IE style error screen and I am using FF.
The idea is the same as with phishing web sites, where a user thinks that this is a legit page, when it is not. Here it is less serious but they still lie to people and keep sending your search phrase to Washington.
Now I am blocking search.rogers.com with my firewall.
Ted truly knows how to make money. And they call me and send garbage to sign up for more services (currently I am internet-only) but I have lost all my respect for this company. Mentally I am ready to go back to dial-up - I am not using internet as much anyway with those 2GB caps. 
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rudeboy24
join:2002-10-14
Welland, ON
| reply to FreakWillie
said by FreakWillie :
VPN into your office. Browse to a company server and get a Rogers/Yahoo search result page, WTF and yes it's a big deal. Because of this, VPN users can't access servers by name over the VPN.
i had the same issue ..i solved it by setting up a WINS Server (Windows Internet Name Service) now the vpn users can see the local servers |
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